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Cloudface is a hand-animated 2D platformer with graphics and humor inspired by Earthworm Jim & Warioland. You control a cheerful business-cloud on a quest to save his important documents. Use weather-based powerups to manipulate enemy abilities & traverse weird and beautiful 2D levels.

It’s a fun game, and the hand drawn animation add a lot of character and joy to the proceedings. It’s the sort kind of game that you can’t help but smile while you’re playing. It’s still early in development, but it’s looking great already. The devs plan to add more zones, more boss fights and Laser Ducks!

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The Consuming Shadow is a procedurally-generated horror adventure game with a Lovecraftian theme and gameplay inspired by FTL: Faster Than Light, Eternal Darkness, and the board game Arkham Horror.

The game is played from a 2D, side on perspective, with characters being depicted through their silhouettes, making the game feel like you’re playing through a graphic novel. The game features procedurally generated dungeons to explore and fight your way through, roguelike perma-death mechanics, random events, upgrades, sanity mechanics and an interesting storyline.

Try not to go mad and shoot yourself. This is important!

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Samphi is a story driven RPG set in a randomly generated, destructible sandbox universe currently on Steam Greenlight. The game does have a few similarities to other sandbox games, such as Terraria, but it also has a heavy focus on storyline and RPG features such as skill sets, pets and mastering your environment. You can play it as a pure sandbox game if you like, through free-play mode, but the story is definitely worth checking out.

The story is about a relationship between boy and girl, with you re-living memories along the timeline of their relationship you learn their story. It’s a refreshing change for a sandbox game to have a real, meaningful story, and it really adds to the gameplay.

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Yargis is a top down space shooter, in a similar vein as geometry wars, but with slightly slower paced, more tactical gameplay and more advanced physics models, that’s currently on Steam Greenlight.

The game features a large array of customisation options for your ship, allowing you to make it truly unique. There’s also a level editor, entertaining multiplayer modes, unlockable upgrades, and an interesting story.

Yargis has had a successful Kickstarter campaign, and is currently on Steam Greenlight. You can download the Alpha for free, or purchase immediate Beta access from their homepage.

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Haunted Memories is a survival horror game set in a creepy, haunted dream world. The game looks visually stunning, and combined with the unsettling soundtrack, it really builds a tense atmosphere.

On your journey through the world you’ll meet others who are trapped there too, and choose to help them, or condemn them to eternal dreaming. You’ll also discover why you’re in this nightmare, and choose to stay in the darkness, or live and lead to the light.

The game features a combination of puzzle and action elements that force you to think, run, feel and kill to survive the nightmare. Haunted Memories will be released as six separate episodes, the first of which is available now through Steam Early Access.

Download it for free through Steam Early Access

Mad Dan is a humorous Tower Defence game with a nice looking 3D, cartoony art style coming to iOS.

Your character (Mad Dan) has the ability to control objects with his mind and use power-ups to stop the nicely animated blocky hordes from reaching their goal.

With solid gameplay mechanics, well animated and fun cut-scenes, and a unique visual style, Made Dan is a great new take on the Tower Defence genre.

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Velvet Sundown is an intriguing new multiplayer game from Tribe Studios that sees 4 people having to carry out individual quests through interactions with NPCs and the other players.

The devs claim that each 40 min game will be unique, with the players creating the experience. With its interesting multiplayer interactions, international playboys, high heels, luxury yachts and beautiful sunsets, it’s worth making reservations aboard Velvet Sundown.

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Pixel Piracy is a side-scrolling 2d, RTS sandbox roguelike pirate simulation game that’s currently on Steam Greenlight. The player must sail their ship over a number of procedurally generated sea zones, battling pirates and other hostile forces, recruiting and disciplining crew members, and upgrading their ship. Combat takes place in pausable real time, and if the ship is destroyed or the crew lost, the game ends, requiring the player to restart.

It’s a great game, with a beautifully animated pixel art style and a nice sense of humor. It’s a whole lot of fun attacking enemy ships with projectiles, then boarding and looting them. Forget Assassins Creed 4, Pixel Piracy is where the real gold is.

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Guns and Robots is a cartoon-style online shooter where players assemble funny looking, yet deadly robots, then blow the crap out of each other with them. The game features a host of customisation features, allowing you to make your robot unique and has fast, fun gameplay that makes blowing other players creations to smithereens a joy.

It’s Robot Wars, but with better robots, OTT weapons, more carnage, more destruction & generally more fun!

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